No worries: Democrats will blow their funding cutting each other to pieces in the primaries, and then the Koch Bros et al. will pour the legal maximum into each Republican candidate while simultaneously funding PACs to place attack ads that portray the prevailing Democrat as an incompetent baby killing socialist.

District 5 includes areas just South of a former Confederate capital and sandwiched between rural appalachia and a state that left the Union once. It’s going to cost more than that for it to turn blue. Incidentally Dist. 5 is home to lots of horse ranches, a few vineyards and expensive tracts of coveted Virginia properties (read former plantations). Surely another $92k can be squeezed out of the area. Oh, and Charlottesville too. Fingers crossed.

Democrats are not, overall, facing too many primaries; in fact, there are places they have a hard time fielding even one candidate. It’s the Tea Party that has been eviscerating dozens incumbents by the dozen, and thank goodness for that.

Also, I’ve heard the billionaires are slamming their wallets shut because of the failure of Trumpcare. That doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way, but R’s are getting pretty desperate to pass something - anything - on tax cuts for you-know-who.

Right. My first thought was, “If these are safe republican districts, the republicans probably aren’t bothering to fund-raise, whereas the democrats need to vastly outspend to even have a chance of winning.”

Yes, it’s better if we just let the party leaders pick who we’ll vote for. Think of all the time and money and effort we’d save if we just got rid of those pesky competitive primaries and gave in to the wisdom of the DNC.

Wow- that 5th district, certainly isn’t designed for compactness, is it.

Their attempt to dilute the Charlottesville voters has resulted in a district that splays out from one side of the state to the other, like a giant cartographic middle finger raised in the faces of any voter who thought that their choices might have a chance of determining the election outcome